Start and Stop

Note that commands related to starting and stopping Workerman are completed in the command line.

To start Workerman, you first need a startup entry file that defines the ports and protocols the service listens to. You can refer to the Getting Started Guide - Simple Development Example Section.

Here, we take workerman-chat as an example, with its startup entry being start.php.

Start in debug mode

php start.php start

Start in daemon mode

php start.php start -d

php start.php stop

php start.php restart

php start.php reload

php start.php status

php start.php connections

Difference between debug and daemon modes

When started in debug mode, the output from functions like echo, var_dump, and print will be directly displayed in the terminal.
When started in daemon mode, the output from functions like echo, var_dump, and print will be redirected by default to the /dev/null file. You can set the file path by using Worker::$stdoutFile = '/your/path/file';.
When started in debug mode, Workerman will terminate and exit when the terminal is closed.
When started in daemon mode, Workerman will continue to run normally in the background even if the terminal is closed.